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Members of the Polack Bros. Circus set up for their show inside Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, June 1946

Description:

Members of the Polack Bros. Circus set up for their show inside Shrine Auditorium, which is part of the Shrine Charity Circus event. The Shrine Charity Circus is an annual 10-day event, which features an indoor show by the Polack Bros. Circus. Orphaned and underprivileged children are allowed to visit the circus as their admission is paid by affluent members of the community. The circus also travels to the children's hospital to entertain sick children who can't attend. Proceeds from the circus go to Shrine charitable activities.

Date Created:

1946

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Tiger trainer Mabel Stark stands by a cage containing two of her tigers at the Shrine Charity Circus, Los Angeles, June 1946

Description:

Tiger trainer Mabel Stark stands by a cage containing two of her tigers. Stark is referred to as the world's first female tiger trainer. Here, she is at Shrine Auditorium for the annual Shrine Charity Circus. The Shrine Charity Circus is a 10-day event, which features an indoor show by the Polack Bros. Circus. Orphaned and underprivileged children are allowed to visit the circus as their admission is paid by affluent members of the community. The circus also travels to the children's hospital to entertain sick children who can't attend. Proceeds from the circus go to Shrine charitable activities.

Date Created:

1946

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wirewalker Hubert Castle prepares for his act at the Shrine Charity Circus, Los Angeles, June 1946

Description:

Hubert Castle (a.k.a. Hal Smith or Hal Silvers), wirewalker, prepares for his act at the Shrine Charity Circus. The circus is an annual 10-day event held at Shrine Auditorium, which features an indoor show by the Polack Bros. Circus. Orphaned and underprivileged children are allowed to visit the circus as their admission is paid by affluent members of the community. The circus also travels to the children's hospital to entertain the sick children who can't attend. Proceeds from the circus go to Shrine charitable activities.

Date Created:

1946

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Rosita Yacopi writes with three young children sitting on a hay bale at the Shrine Charity Circus, Los Angeles, June 1946

Description:

Mrs. Rosita Yacopi and three young children sitting on a bale of hay and writing under a tent at the Shrine Charity Circus. The circus is an annual 10-day event held at Shrine Auditorium, which features an indoor show by the Polack Bros. Circus. Orphaned and underprivileged children are allowed to visit the circus as their admission is paid by affluent members of the community. The circus also travels to the children's hospital to entertain the sick children who can't attend. Proceeds from the circus go to Shrine charitable activities.

Date Created:

1946

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Members of the Polack Bros. Circus set up for their show inside Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, June 1946

Description:

Members of the Polack Bros. Circus set up for their show inside Shrine Auditorium, as part of the Shrine Charity Circus event. The Shrine Charity Circus is an annual 10-day event, which features an indoor show by the Polack Bros. Circus. Orphaned and underprivileged children are allowed to visit the circus as their admission is paid by affluent members of the community. The circus also travels to the children's hospital to entertain sick children who can't attend. Proceeds from the circus go to Shrine charitable activities.

Date Created:

1946

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mrs. Rosita Yacopi talks to three young children sitting on a hay bale at the Shrine Charity Circus, Los Angeles, June 1946

Description:

Mrs. Rosita Yacopi talks to three young children sitting on a bale of hay under a tent at the Shrine Charity Circus. The circus is an annual 10-day event held at Shrine Auditorium, which features an indoor show by the Polack Bros. Circus. Orphaned and underprivileged children are allowed to visit the circus as their admission is paid by affluent members of the community. The circus also travels to the children's hospital to entertain the sick children who can't attend. Proceeds from the circus go to Shrine charitable activities.

Date Created:

1946

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Tiger trainer Mabel Stark scratches one of her tigers on the chin at the Shrine Charity Circus, Los Angeles, June 1946

Description:

Tiger trainer Mabel Stark scratches one of her tigers on the chin. Stark is referred to as the world's first female tiger trainer. Here, she is at Shrine Auditorium for the annual Shrine Charity Circus. The Shrine Charity Circus is a 10-day event, which features an indoor show by the Polack Bros. Circus. Orphaned and underprivileged children are allowed to visit the circus as their admission is paid by affluent members of the community. The circus also travels to the children's hospital to entertain sick children who can't attend. Proceeds from the circus go to Shrine charitable activities.

Date Created:

1946

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Opening night at the newly completed Shrine Auditorium on January 23, Los Angeles, 1926

Description:

The Shrine Auditorium was designed in the Moorish Revival style by San Francisco-based theater architect G. Albert Lansburgh, with local architects John C. Austin and A. M. Edelman associated. When built, the auditorium could hold 1,200 people on stage and seat an audience of 6,442.

Date Created:

1926

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

Billie Johnson stands in front of the Best Foods exhibit at the Food and Household Show, Los Angeles, 1933

Description:

Billie Johnson stands in front of the Best Foods exhibit at the Food and Household Show, sponsored by the Southern California Retail Grocers Association. The exhibit features towers of various Best Foods products and signs at the top reading, "84 Best Foods Products Simon Levi Company Ltd. Exclusive Distributors" and "Know what you eat or don't eat it!" A display shows ingredients of their products, "select eggs," "best vinegar," "[fine] salad oil," "imported spices," "NO fillers cooking."

Date Created:

1933

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection

La Sierra Industries exhibit at the Food and Household Show, Los Angeles, 1932

Description:

The La Sierra Industries exhibit at the Food and Household Show, sponsored by the Southern California Retail Grocers Association. A woman behind the booth passes samples to a visitor. A man behind the booth holds a child, and another man stands to the side. The exhibit features various soy-based products on the counter, as well as signs describing the types of items that are made of soy, including soy bologna and soy frozen milk. A sign in the back reads, in part, "Soy Bean Products, nature's alkalinizing food prefect food for all in the following products: soy milk, soy cheese, soy butter, soy coffee, soy loaf, soy sandwich spread, soy bologna..."

Date Created:

1932

Resource Type:

still image

Collection:

Los Angeles Times Photographs Collection